The Teacher's Big Book of Graphic Organizers: 100 Reproducible Organizers that Help Kids with Reading, Writing, and the Content Areas (Jossey-Bass Teacher)

Tap into the power of graphic organizers for classroom successVeteran educator and NCTE trainer Katherine McKnight shows how students can use graphic organizers as an important tool to organize new information. Providing a visual representation that uses symbols to express ideas, concepts, and convey meaning, graphic organizers help to depict relationships between facts, terms, and ideas. The author demonstrates how graphic organizers have proven to be a powerful teaching and learning strategy.Includes 100 graphic organizers-more than any comparable bookIncluded graphic organizers can be used before-, during-, and after-learning activities across the content areasContains easy-to-follow instructions for teachers on how to use and adapt the book's graphic organizersOffers strategies for teachers to create their own graphic organizers for different grade levelsThe author Katherine McKnight is a noted literacy educator.